Thursday, January 18, 2007

"SLED"s and Arguments Against Abortion?

Yup. I heard this guy talk once a few years ago and never forgot it. Now that it is available again, I thought you might want to hear it yourself.

"Some of today's bio-ethicists claim that if you don't have self-awareness, you don't count as a human being! But that is certainly not ethical, and it contradicts the facts of biology! Can you counter such unfounded bigotry? Learn how, from Dr. D. James Kennedy's guest, Scott Klusendorf, on Truths That Transform."

Here is part one and part two.

NOTE: The above links are now dead. Until I fix this, here are Scott's main points:

1. Size--Men are typically bigger than women, but does this fact give men the right to kill women? Shaquille O'Neil is bigger than me, but that does not make him more human, or give him more value.
2. Level of Development--Four year olds are less developed than 20 year olds, but we recognize both to be equally valuable.
3. Environment--Why does where you are have anything to do with what you are? How does traveling down an 8" birth canal give someone value?
4. Degree of Dependency--Are people on insulin, or the elderly of less value than a healthy 20 year old because the latter is less dependent? Newborns are entirely dependent on their mother. Does this mean they have no value?


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